Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga

Updated 2:11 PM ET, Thu February 6, 2014

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Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga – Jose Salvador Alvarenga attends a news conference in Majuro, Marshall Islands, on Thursday, February 6. Alvarenga, who is from El Salvador, said he spent 13 months lost in the Pacific Ocean, floating from Mexico to the Marshall Islands, which is about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.

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Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga – Alvarenga is helped up the stairs as he walks to the news conference in Majuro. He returned to a hospital to be intravenously fed, said a top Mexican trade official.

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Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga – A photo obtained on February 6 shows Alvarenga's boat shortly after his January 30 arrival on Ebon Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Alvarenga says that in December 2012, he and another man set off on a fishing trip from the port of Paredon Viejo, Mexico. He said they were blown off course by winds and then got caught in a storm, losing the use of their engines.

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Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga – Alvarenga waves as he walks with the help of a nurse in Majuro on Monday, February 3. Alvarenga said his companion died of starvation because he refused to eat raw birds and turtles.